We have available for you the latest ADP/RC33(US)/RC9(UK) JesusFreke firmwares right here:

US G1:http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/unofficial-app-repo.html?func=fileinfo&id=19
Alternate Download:http://jf.odiness.com/v1.42/JFv1.42_RC33.zip

UK G1:http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/unofficial-app-repo.html?func=fileinfo&id=18
Alternate Download:http://jf.odiness.com/v1.43/JFv1.43_RC9.zip

ADP1:http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/unofficial-app-repo.html?func=fileinfo&id=20
Alternate Download:http://jf.odiness.com/v1.43/JFv1.43_Holiday.zip


This version contains... *drumroll* multi-touch support! Thanks to lukehutch, zinx and ryebrye, this build allows android applications to receive multi-touch events. The built-in browser now supports multi-touch zooming!

It also includes an Auto-Rotate setting that you can enable, to allow it to change screen orientation, based on the orientation of the phone. You can turn on auto-rotate in the browser settings (it's off by default).

Install in the usual way.

Save the zip file to your sdcard named update.zip
boot into recovery mode (home + power), and then press alt+s.
If you are switch between versions, e.g. from RC30 to ADP1, you must also do a wipe in recovery mode (alt+w). This will clear all your data/settings/apps, and you will have to re-register once it boots back up.
If you are staying on the same build, i.e. from JFv1.31 RC30 to JFv1.41 RC30, then you shouldn't have to do a wipe.

NOTE: If you end up with 2 Superuser whitelist apps in the app menu, you can uninstall one of them in Settings->Applications->Manage Applications.
There will only be 1 that is uninstallable, so don't worry about uninstalling the wrong one.


If this is your first time installing one of my firmwares, you may be interested in the other changes that have been made in previous versions, which are included
in this version. Some of the notable features include:

* Many more commands are available to use on the terminal. busybox is included, to provide standard commands like cp, grep, less, more, vi, sed, cp.. etc.
* A secure way to get root access, through Koush's superuser application. To get root, open up terminal emulator and type su. A new window will open asking if you want to allow root access. Click Yes or Always, and it will go back to the terminal emulator, and you'll have root access
* A number of useful kernel modules that you can use. For example, ext2, cifs, and a host of others
* A full phone backup utility. Boot into recovery mode with home+power, and then press alt+b to perform a backup. It stores the backup as .img files in a subfolder of the nandroid folder of your sdcard. To restore the backup, you have to have the engineering spl or hardspl installed, and then flash the images with the fastboot utility
* ota updates are disabled. This is to prevent t-mobile from automatically updating your phone with a new update that removes your root access.
* some applications that are missing on RC8 (the uk version) have been added. For example, the voice dialer and the amazon mp3 store.
* when you connect to the phone using adb, you have root access

I've never done this before, so I'm assuming I've missed something. I followed your instructions but I'm still on my original firmware I think (which I'm assuming is US firmware, so I attempted to install the US zip file).

- Copied JFv1.42_RC33.zip to the sdcard over the USB connection
- Renamed it to update.zip
- Booted into recovery mode using home + power, a warning icon appeared
- Pressed alt+s and animation played that looked like stuff installing
- Pressed alt+w, the same animation played again
- Restarted again
- Reconfigured my handset with APN and Google account
- Checked for multi-touch support in browser, no luck
- Checked Build number under phone information, it reads kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC19 109652 ota-rel-keys,release-keys

Please help, the process is too slow for me to use trial and error now.

Hi,

You can speak to JesusFreke himself, he is often in the IRC Chat channel available straight from our homepage.

He is very approachable and should be able to help you in great detail, please post results back to the thread.

I found another handy command Alt+L which brings up text about what's happening. I tried to apply the firmware again with the text visible, this time I see an error message:

Code:

E:No signature ([three,nine,two] files) E:Verification failed Installation aborted

Note: I don't know how to prevent the number 392 from being converted to an image in the code block and screwing up the layout, so I've written it as text.

Ok, the important step I was missing was the replacement recovery image, which required root access. Root was easy enough using the telnet method still available with this firmware. Then I just needed to put a copy of recovery_testkeys.img on the sdcard and run a command as root to get it to pick it up. Here's the comprehensive instructions that worked for me... http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Root#Install_JF.27s_ROM

Thanks for sharing that experience with the community.